
Small Maine towns take brunt of recent rise in COVID-19 cases
Maine’s recent rise in COVID-19 cases is challenging assumptions about how the virus spreads.
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Here are potential candidates to replace late UMaine men’s hockey coach Red Gendron
The new coach will be entrusted to return the program to the upper echelon of college hockey.

A prosecutor ended his police career. He doesn’t understand why she won’t hear his side.
Former Millinocket police officer Paul Gamble’s 18-year career in law enforcement came to an abrupt end in July 2019 when his boss, the police chief, told the local district attorney’s office that Gamble had lied on a police report about taking a photograph of a domestic violence victim’s injuries.

Maine looks to allay concerns around COVID-19 vaccines after Johnson & Johnson pause
After months of waiting to get a coronavirus vaccine, Roger Knight was dismayed to wake up on Tuesday and learn the shot he got the day before was no longer being offered.
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Parents are dealing with unprecedented challenges during the pandemic. Here’s what can help.
While life as a parent is often busy, it’s taken on a whole new sense during the pandemic.

Confessions of a dinner rule breaker
“I hope [my family] remember[s] that everything we made together tasted better than anything I ever made them on my own,” Emily Morrison writes.

Maine companies are finding ingenious ways to be ecofriendly
Taking extra steps to make less of an impact on the environment can be expensive, which is a risk in the sink-or-swim entrepreneurial world. But these companies have found a way.